Academic Program Development

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The proposed partnership between the College of Marin and San Francisco State University focuses on the Indian Valley Campus of the College of Marin.

The primary goal is to provide partnership programs that:

  • meet the needs of a diverse student population and effectively serve the surrounding community
  • are educationally on the cutting edge and thus also attract external funding in the present context of economic scarcity
  • are specifically suited to the social and environmental context of the North Bay
  • will not in any way compromise existing programs at either institution

Additionally, the partnership seeks to

  • increase enrollments on the Indian Valley Campus
  • enhance the prestige of both institutions
  • stimulate meaningful collaborative work across the two faculties

Programmatic Proposal Guidelines

Proposals for program-to-program partnerships should address each of the following:

  1. Describe how the proposed program relates to each of the primary goals of the partnership.
  2. People:
    • Who is proposing this? (Faculty, administration, staff, etc.)
    • What is the student base? (The source of students)
    • What data supports the on-going availability of students and the likelihood that the program will increase enrollments on the IVC campus?
    • How will the program benefit faculty?
    • What further data needs to be gathered?
  3. Program
    • Describe the program. (Undergraduate, graduate, self-supported, state-supported, cohort, curriculum, articulation between COM and SFSU, etc.)
    • What is distinctive about this program (different from regular offerings at either campus)?
    • What is distinctively collaborative about the program and in what way is this superior to what either institution can do separately?
    • What is the anticipated need for graduates of the program?
    • What data supports the anticipated need?
    • How does the program serve the community at large?
    • What opportunities are anticipated for involvement of the program in community-based projects or externally funded research/civic engagement?
  4. Practicalities (See Practicalities list)
    • What are the monetary, staff, and space needs of the program? Ex. Will there be increased demands on the present COM staff and services
    • What other resources will be needed? Ex. Will additional library resources be needed and if so, how would they be provided?

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